Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 2)

[benji]

But there’s supposed to be a better way, between permanent adolescence and emotional conformity. Adulthood doesn’t have to be dour or smug. It can be fun, generous, expansive. It can mean taking yourself seriously enough to imagine that your actions matter, that you could be an example to someone. That you could be worthy of being imitated, not because you’re cool or quirky or a vibe, but because you are a fully formed person who knows things and is good at things and believes in things. And who, yes, sometimes says “no.” The culture now rewards you for saying yes to everything. Yes to the 40-year-old’s toy haul, yes to never traveling anywhere but to Disneyland, yes to celebrity divorce gossip, yes to fake ADHD self-diagnosis, yes to the Spotify feed tube of pop dross that thrills 13-year-olds, yes to the holy algorithm. It’s so easy to say yes. And if that’s your prerogative, fine. But the more people who choose that route, the fewer people are left to say no: no to cruelty, no to laziness, no to willful ignorance. No to being less than what you are capable of becoming. Adulthood is hard. But it’s not a trap. It’s the mechanism by which we build a world worth living in.

TikTok will go away eventually. It might be tomorrow or ten years from now, but it’ll be replaced by something else, and then something else after that. But the deeper cultural pathology won’t change unless we learn to associate adulthood with something more than giving up. Unless we can say, with pride, I am no longer a child, and that is a good thing.

The Judd Apatow movie The 40 Year Old Virgin literalizes its protagonist’s stunted internal life through his intense obsession with his action figure collection; they literally line his walls. This plot point is repeatedly referenced, and yet there’s little in the way of an argument about it. The filmmakers likely believed that the audience didn’t need convincing that a middle aged virgin who spent all his disposable income on toys was a pathetic figure; that his life was sad rather than liberated or filled with childlike joy was obvious. Well, that movie came out, incredibly, a full twenty years ago. Nowadays, I wonder if people who watch it are moved to mount an aggressive defense of a 40 year old’s fixation on his toy collection, or if they even notice at all.

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[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/humble-bundle-has-an-unofficial-harry-potter-reference-library-bundle-that-benefits-the-trevor-project-who-was-not-involved-in-the-bundle-selection.1248153/#post-142874031

There a lot of Trans Streamer play Hogwarts Legacy.

There are also a lot of people in the queer community who play Five Nights at Freddy's. Doesn't change the fact that Scott Cawthon is a Trump- and Republican-supporting piece of shit whose life work deserves to be forgotten.

What's the point of you bringing this up?

[benji]

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/humble-bundle-has-an-unofficial-harry-potter-reference-library-bundle-that-benefits-the-trevor-project-who-was-not-involved-in-the-bundle-selection.1248153/#post-142874031

There a lot of Trans Streamer play Hogwarts Legacy.

There are also a lot of people in the queer community who play Five Nights at Freddy's. Doesn't change the fact that Scott Cawthon is a Trump- and Republican-supporting piece of shit whose life work deserves to be forgotten.

What's the point of you bringing this up?

Frankly, it'd be quicker if you just made a list of acceptable media for the rest of us to pair down further.

[benji]

I haven't been keeping up with Harry Potter stuff but I thought there was a movement for everyone to collectively say Harry Potter stuff was created by Hatsune Miku to help erase Rowling from the ether. Is that still happening?

First I've heard of this. Make it so!

She's alive and profits so that's stupid and hence no everyone did not say that

It doesn't stick because she's too hands on with it, right down to the new TV show.

People were trying to do to justify liking Harry Potter and I immediately side eye anyone trying to separate art and artist here

Be fucking serious.

Since it apparently needs grounding, a reminder that the UK has currently:

• Introduced segregation with various organisations and businesses banning trans people from bathrooms
  
• Plans to introduce a full ban on trans women from all women's spaces and protections from misogyny
  
• Plans to introduce a ban on trans people from all spaces aligned to their sex, be it a changing room or a support group
  
• Plans to introduce the ability to ban trans people from both bathrooms, with justification our mere presence causes distress to people
  
• Considers it unlawful for the police to march at Pride because supporting trans people is considered non-neutral
  
• Directs schools to not teach trans identities as fact, but rather a contested belief
  
• Bans the international standard of healthcare for all trans children
  
• Has doctors refusing to prescribe HRT to trans adults who have been on them for years, with no warning
  
• Has determined that male officers should conduct strip searches when the woman in question is suspected of being trans
  
• Banned trans women from most sports, from football through to angling
  

We're at this point:

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/05/un-experts-warn-legal-uncertainty-and-rights-implications-following-uk

First I've heard of this. Make it so!

No don't make it so

Buy into the IP or don't but don't pretend you're not somehow enriching her because you claim an anime character did it

[benji]

Be fucking serious.

Introduced segregation with various organisations and businesses banning trans people from bathrooms

This is not segregation.

Plans to introduce a full ban on trans women from all women's spaces and protections from misogyny

Trans women cannot suffer misogyny because they are male.

Plans to introduce a ban on trans people from all spaces aligned to their sex, be it a changing room or a support group

I doubt this because their sex is the opposite of what they claim, so it probably means bans them from spaces not aligned with their sex.

Directs schools to not teach trans identities as fact, but rather a contested belief

This is a good thing because they are.

Bans the international standard of healthcare for all trans children

This isn't a thing.

Has doctors refusing to prescribe HRT to trans adults who have been on them for years, with no warning

I think they should give a warning but I don't think doctors should be forced by law to participate in religious rituals so I'm fine with this.

Has determined that male officers should conduct strip searches when the woman in question is suspected of being trans

I don't believe women should be forced to strip search males, who may receive sexual pleasure from it, so I'm fine with this.

Banned trans women from most sports, from football through to angling

Has banned them from the women category, not from the sports, so I'm fine with this.

Oh wait, you didn't actually mean to "be fucking serious" did you? I should have recognized that when you claimed this was all Joanne's doing.

[HaughtyFrank]

Made me think of resetera

[almostheathen]

Did that cat ever get the 35k it needed to live a good life for a month?

[benji]

You could always see that on Twitter, somebody will be like "you're a Nazi/racist/transphobic/etc." and a lot of the worst chud accounts will straight up say yes and then probably start defending the position. A lot of the right-wing accounts post daily about how they hate democracy and want it eliminated. 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wsj-jeffrey-epsteins-friends-sent-him-bawdy-letters-for-a-50th-birthday-album-one-was-from-donald-trump-update-trump-suing-wsj-and-murdoch.1246782/page-19#post-142874046

Oh shit. They are gonna fully turn on Trump, and probably asked Vance if he wants to take over. LFGOOOOOOO LOL

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wsj-jeffrey-epsteins-friends-sent-him-bawdy-letters-for-a-50th-birthday-album-one-was-from-donald-trump-update-trump-suing-wsj-and-murdoch.1246782/page-19#post-142874373

If Vance has to take over at some point, will this technically create a loophole for Trump to run again in 2028?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wsj-jeffrey-epsteins-friends-sent-him-bawdy-letters-for-a-50th-birthday-album-one-was-from-donald-trump-update-trump-suing-wsj-and-murdoch.1246782/page-19#post-142874637

LOL. Trump is NEVER stepping down as President. He will be President until he dies.

[benji]

Did that cat ever get the 35k it needed to live a good life for a month?

That drama has been moved over here: https://thebire.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=379&pid=138936

And no, they're all going to die yet again this month because of everyone else not giving.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wsj-jeffrey-epsteins-friends-sent-him-bawdy-letters-for-a-50th-birthday-album-one-was-from-donald-trump-update-trump-suing-wsj-and-murdoch.1246782/page-19#post-142874373

If Vance has to take over at some point, will this technically create a loophole for Trump to run again in 2028?

It's not hard to read the text to see if there's a loophole available:

No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice

[almostheathen]

Oh did we move all the mentally ill stuff i getcha my bad.

[benji]

Oh did we move all the mentally ill stuff i getcha my bad.

No, ResetERA.com still goes in this thread, just moved the Bluesky stuff.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

if it's okay to support Disney who..

1. Filmed Mulan in the Xinjiang province
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-54064654

2. Erased a Transgender story from one of their products.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/disney-pulls-transgender-storyline-win-or-lose-1236088172/

3. Supports Israel
https://boycott.thewitness.news/target/disney

Then it's okay to support Rowling. Palestinian deaths massively outnumber Transgender deaths, you know since it's an actual genocide. Sorry, not sorry. 

Ban all Disney and Marvel content on Era and I will stop buying POTTAH products.

[benji]

Then it's okay to support Rowling. Palestinian deaths massively outnumber Transgender deaths, you know since it's an actual genocide. Sorry, not sorry. 

Ban all Disney and Marvel content on Era and I will stop buying POTTAH products.

This is a forum that openly acknowledged their consoles were made by slave labor yet did nothing about it other than pin the thread, not even to put a message on every thread about consoles, and also admits Microsoft is leading the genocide but refuses to do anything about it other than put a dismissible message near the advertising.

You can see their staff priorities clearly:
 Criminally accused of sexual harassment.
 Makes products with slave labor.
 Engages in genocide.
 Bans women from speaking in the workplace about their rights being taken away.
 Tweets harshly about men.
 Has appropriate art in their dystopian world and once made a single "did you assume my gender" tweet.

[benji]

[benji]

 Engages in genocide.

Like five posts all week:

What a beautiful thread filled with beautiful disdain for all the right reasons - unfortunately my gamepass is tied to my brother as he subscribed to it but going to tell him to cancel any and all renewals. Time to switch over to getting games on PS5, plus if I recall correctly, developers hate Gamepass as it screws them over on sales? Someone check me on that

Buying things in capitalism sucks, but there are probably better and worse things to buy and better and worse places to buy them. It would be nice to have a robust guide to this sort of thing. I've been on Linux only for many years, but I don't really know how to get away from things like Amazon/Walmart. Basically I just try to buy as little as possible. Also I really appreciate the work Valve has done getting Linux compatible with many games, but I am always disappointed at the number of games that are Linux native. I try to only pay for games that have native Linux versions at this point.

I've been off of Amazon for almost a year and haven't gone to Walmart in I don't know how long. Groceries I've replaced with Costco, Trader Joe's, and Aldi. If those are convenient for you, they're pretty great. Non everyday things that I used to buy on Amazon I now look to see if the vendor has their own website, a lot of times they'll be able to match the Amazon rate (or cheaper), though you may need to pay shipping. Things I need for crafting, I'll go to Michael's. Absolute worst case, I shop at Target, but I haven't had to do that this year yet. Electronics is pretty much only Best Buy at this point. It is tough, but it has helped me cut back on unnecessary consuming too, which is a good thing.

Zero posts about banning Microsoft from the forum, especially their ads.

Im inching ever closer to migrating to linux, my friend made the jump and now im plotting out how to move my data over now.

Good luck. Normally a USB is good enough. Let us know if there's anything you need help with!

It's called copy/cut and paste or literally just use the same exact drive as it is. Post was on Wednesday and nobody's bothered to tell him 'nix can read/write NTFS.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

 Microsoft is leading the genocide but refuses to do anything about it other than put a dismissible message near the advertising.

you would think that but mods have already stopped caring about adding the bds to gamepass posts.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/coming-to-game-pass-grounded-2-game-preview-wuchang-fallen-feathers-farming-simulator-25-and-more.1243896/

[Hap Shaughnessy]

What happens if Fats does finally manage to have gay sex, and he doesn't like it?

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wsj-jeffrey-epsteins-friends-sent-him-bawdy-letters-for-a-50th-birthday-album-one-was-from-donald-trump-update-trump-suing-wsj-and-murdoch.1246782/page-19#post-142873704

What I can't figure out is why didn't any of this come out last year? During the election season? When it might have actually swayed some voters?

Especially if MAGA nation was calling for it?

Why wait until Trump is already president to do this? He's not going anywhere for another 3 and a half years. He's just going to keep suing everyone and abusing his power to punish the media.

The Dems/Biden/Garland/FBI/SDNY MUST have known all this shit. What the hell were they waiting for?

But hasn't all the OTHER stuff been on file already under the Biden admin? Possibly even at the end of the Trump admin? Why now?

Did Trump hide it or something before Biden took over?

The bulk of the Epstein investigation, his arrest, and eventual "suicide" all took place during the Trump administration 2016-2020. Jeff Sessions and then Bill Barr were AGs then. Did they try to hide all this shit from Biden? Or hide it from Trump himself?

And then Dick Durbin yesterday says he found out Trump had 1,000 FBI agents scouring all the files and data back in March after he regained the White house, for Trump-related material, almost as if Trump didn't even know how much stuff had him in it.

It's like Trump was under the impression he didn't have anything to worry about, and then after the FBI/Bondi/Patel/Bongino all dug through the Trump related stuff in the Epstein files back in March, they all had a Holy Shit moment and started backtracking on releasing all the files and evidence.

It's also possible that Trumps health is way worse than they let on, because in Trump logic the fact they were even a little transparent means the truth is always way worse. Look no further than his COVID death scare and how they handled that.

If people like the Murdochs know, and they certainly would, then the secret meaning could also be they feeling him out for what's going to become inevitable, Trumps death in the next 4 years.

Anyway, that's enough wishcasting for the day.

This is sort of my "theory";

That Trumps health is extremely bad and they all know, and as everyone has said the base is a fucking cult, so when Trump dies they go with him and its very unlikely they would all move to someone else. But if they can decouple the cult from Trump, they could maybe keep the base if the new hero "saved" them from him...

Vance? I don't think its gonna work if this is the plan lolol.

This doesn't make any sense, so that's to be expected from the sister of a transphobe who told us there's no misinformation on TikTok.

[Averon]

Community Thread:

Again,

I genuinely don't get how the HR thing counts as a dog whistle for anything.

Which then connects to my other point of other things I've seen Era call dog whistles and associate with chuds.

I'm all ears. But I'm not gonna just take the initial word for it based on other experiences here.

The first time I saw that phrase was when a specific sector of gamers were complaining about Aloy's design in Horizon Forbidden West (and the images of comparisons with Zero Dawn). They were saying on X that it looked like Sony had consulted/asked for HRs input to make sure to "make her ugly".

Again this is not about Veilguard or Bioware, and I feel like the real conversation about what at the end of the day are fascist dogwhistles ends up getting sidelined with "people don't want Veilguard to be criticised". Veilguard's writing compared to Dragon Age 2 is bland, ethically non-challenging and intentionally heroic without giving the player any chance to acknowledge the many different grey areas of the world it inhabits, and it diminishes the writing value the saga had gained massively. That is not in discussion. The discussion is about the way things are said.

I'm aware of that, but at the same time, people have totally used this as a way to shield games against criticism in general. IE reading something in poor faith, exaggerating the criticism being made, associating the point being made with chuds.

To be honest with you I find that such a non-issue compared to the points made by people in the gaming space with fascist tendencies (because of what they are effectively bringing into the real world) that I don't think that association or exaggerating is a worry. Something to be ignored and that's kind of it.

 

seroun, you're literally doing what Derbel McDillet said when you claim "HR in the room" is coded GG language to secretly signal to the chuds.

[Alpacx]

But there’s supposed to be a better way, between permanent adolescence and emotional conformity. Adulthood doesn’t have to be dour or smug. It can be fun, generous, expansive. It can mean taking yourself seriously enough to imagine that your actions matter, that you could be an example to someone. That you could be worthy of being imitated, not because you’re cool or quirky or a vibe, but because you are a fully formed person who knows things and is good at things and believes in things. And who, yes, sometimes says “no.” The culture now rewards you for saying yes to everything. Yes to the 40-year-old’s toy haul, yes to never traveling anywhere but to Disneyland, yes to celebrity divorce gossip, yes to fake ADHD self-diagnosis, yes to the Spotify feed tube of pop dross that thrills 13-year-olds, yes to the holy algorithm. It’s so easy to say yes. And if that’s your prerogative, fine. But the more people who choose that route, the fewer people are left to say no: no to cruelty, no to laziness, no to willful ignorance. No to being less than what you are capable of becoming. Adulthood is hard. But it’s not a trap. It’s the mechanism by which we build a world worth living in.

TikTok will go away eventually. It might be tomorrow or ten years from now, but it’ll be replaced by something else, and then something else after that. But the deeper cultural pathology won’t change unless we learn to associate adulthood with something more than giving up. Unless we can say, with pride, I am no longer a child, and that is a good thing.

The Judd Apatow movie The 40 Year Old Virgin literalizes its protagonist’s stunted internal life through his intense obsession with his action figure collection; they literally line his walls. This plot point is repeatedly referenced, and yet there’s little in the way of an argument about it. The filmmakers likely believed that the audience didn’t need convincing that a middle aged virgin who spent all his disposable income on toys was a pathetic figure; that his life was sad rather than liberated or filled with childlike joy was obvious. Well, that movie came out, incredibly, a full twenty years ago. Nowadays, I wonder if people who watch it are moved to mount an aggressive defense of a 40 year old’s fixation on his toy collection, or if they even notice at all.

Many of those points apply to the trans topic which DeBoer avoids like the plague...

[benji]

Community Thread:

The first time I saw that phrase was when a specific sector of gamers were complaining about Aloy's design in Horizon Forbidden West (and the images of comparisons with Zero Dawn). They were saying on X that it looked like Sony had consulted/asked for HRs input to make sure to "make her ugly".

Again this is not about Veilguard or Bioware, and I feel like the real conversation about what at the end of the day are fascist dogwhistles ends up getting sidelined with "people don't want Veilguard to be criticised". Veilguard's writing compared to Dragon Age 2 is bland, ethically non-challenging and intentionally heroic without giving the player any chance to acknowledge the many different grey areas of the world it inhabits, and it diminishes the writing value the saga had gained massively. That is not in discussion. The discussion is about the way things are said.

To be honest with you I find that such a non-issue compared to the points made by people in the gaming space with fascist tendencies (because of what they are effectively bringing into the real world) that I don't think that association or exaggerating is a worry. Something to be ignored and that's kind of it.

It's ironic because this kind of thing is exactly what the fascists did. Replace "fascist dogwhistles/tendencies" with Jewish tendencies or communist dogwhistles. One Jewish guy saying he wanted the Nazis gone was actually a revelation of a secret worldwide Jewish conspiracy that had declared war on Germany and controlled/manipulated all the politics in the capitalist nations. Huh, I know a place where I see that latter claim made a lot...

[Boredfrom]

It is also incredibly sad that, this, of all things is the one that matters to his base and not all the other human suffering that he's currently inflicting on the world.

No to defend Trumptards but the Pizzagate/EpsteinFiles shit is basically a conspiracy theory about powerful people abusing the vulnerable and getting away with it. Trump really, really, like really sold himself as an outsider that was going to take down Washington, and everyone that wasn’t delusional could see this being BS, but for those guys they convinced themselves that Trump was going to do it. 

Many probably are just realizing that Trump is part of the Elite and never had genuine desire to pursue all this, specially because involves him. And Trump, in his infinite wisdom, really said that he was going to investigate the guy and was around people that were hammering the Pizzagate/Eipstein connection. 

If anything, what is sad is how easy to manipulate all these guys are.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wsj-jeffrey-epsteins-friends-sent-him-bawdy-letters-for-a-50th-birthday-album-one-was-from-donald-trump-update-trump-suing-wsj-and-murdoch.1246782/page-20

if they were going down there to abuse non-white women and girls, it would barely be a blip. It would be to the level of rumour, but Epstein fits into that whole white slavery fear trope so it sets the GOP base on fire

[Snoopy]

Considers it unlawful for the police to march at Pride because supporting trans people is considered non-neutral

Kyuuji constantly does this. He either exaggerates, omits or twists facts to fit his agenda.

It is not unlawful for police officers to march at Pride. What they can't do is march in uniform.

[HaughtyFrank]

Considers it unlawful for the police to march at Pride because supporting trans people is considered non-neutral

Kyuuji constantly does this. He either exaggerates, omits or twists facts to fit his agenda.

It is not unlawful for police officers to march at Pride. What they can't do is march in uniform.

Aren't there a million stories about Pride organizers prohibiting cops from participating? 
https://www.axios.com/2022/06/01/lgbtq-pride-events-police

And now they're mad about it and it's fascism 2.0?

[Snoopy]

Plagiarize was literally posting photos of his creepy midlife crisis hair at protests last month

[benji]

Considers it unlawful for the police to march at Pride because supporting trans people is considered non-neutral

Kyuuji constantly does this. He either exaggerates, omits or twists facts to fit his agenda.

It is not unlawful for police officers to march at Pride. What they can't do is march in uniform.

Aren't there a million stories about Pride organizers prohibiting cops from participating? 
https://www.axios.com/2022/06/01/lgbtq-pride-events-police

And now they're mad about it and it's fascism 2.0?

"NO, COPS AT PRIDE!"

[Besticus Maximus]

I was being Chris Redfield, your honour 

[Alpacx]

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